WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- Sen. Joni Ernst issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed U.S. Senator Joni Ernst's (R-Iowa) bipartisan Critical Infrastructure Manufacturing Feasibility Act to decrease our reliance on foreign adversaries for key materials and boost manufacturing in rural America.
The bill instructs the Secretary of Commerce to identify critical goods that are currently being imported and find ways to help domestic producers manufacture them in rural areas and industrial parks, boosting manufacturing here at home.
The bill now heads to the president's desk to be signed into law.
Ernst spoke on the Senate floor ahead of its passage.
"My bipartisan bill will identify vulnerabilitie...